Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2015-09
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The September 2015 NYC WikiWednesday salon and skill-share with the Wikimedia NYC community will be held on Wednesday, September 16, 2015, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, a co-working space and gallery located near 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.
This will be the next in our main monthly series of "WikiWednesday" meetings at Babycastles, in addition to our weekend events and editathons.
Details
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- Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2015
- Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm (feel free to come by early as 6, stay later for social hour)
- Location: Babycastles. 137 W 14th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues), 2nd Floor, Manhattan, New York, NY 10011 40°44′17.5″N 73°59′54.5″W / 40.738194°N 73.998472°W
- Subway:
to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 7th Avenue)
to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 6th Avenue)
to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 6th Avenue)
to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street - Union Square)
to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street - Union Square)
to 14th St. (exit at 14th Street and 8th Avenue)
- Bus: M1, M2, M3, M14A, M14D, X1, X7, X9, X10, X12, X17, X27, X28 buses
- Hashtag: #WikiWednesday
- After the main meeting: Pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery
Agenda
[edit]| January 2025 +/- | |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia Day Seattle | January 11, 2025 |
| London 212 | January 12, 2025 |
| Wikipedia Day Minnesota | January 15, 2025 |
| Wikipedia Day San Francisco | January 18, 2025 |
| Exeter 2 | January 18, 2025 |
| Oxford 107 | January 19, 2025 |
| Wikipedia Day Toronto | January 19, 2025 |
| Wikipedia Day Chicago | January 19, 2025 |
| Edinburgh 19 | January 25, 2025 |
| Wikipedia Day NYC | January 25, 2025 |
| Brixton 6 | January 27, 2025 |
| February 2025 +/- | |
| Utah Wikipedia Day at Sundance Film Festival |
February 1, 2025 |
| US Mountain West online | February 11, 2025 |
| WikiCredCon - San Francisco | February 14, 2025 |
| Seattle | February 18, 2025 |
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Bring your own ideas!
Introductions / new users
[edit]- Introductions
- Focus on new users, questions, etc.
Follow-up on ideas raised at recent wiki-events
[edit]- Local Wikipedia Free Culture Alliance NYC projects
- Past, present, and future institutional partnerships with Wikipedia
- Recent editathons and projects
- Smithsonian Asian Pacific American editathon @ MoMA - September 2
Chapter business
[edit]- Grants review
- Committees review
- Public broadcasting cooperation projects
- Tech/app/bot projects
- Reimagining WMF grants and annual plans
- Advance prepping for Wikimedia Conference 2016 in Berlin
Future plans
[edit]- Monthly: Regular WikiWednesdays @ Babycastles (next: Oct 28), Editathons @ MoMA and timing
- Semester-long: Planning Fall 2015 WP:NYCEDU wiki-classes
- September: AfroCROWD Wikipedia Editathon @ Queens Library (Sunday, September 20) - Eventbrite RSVP
- October:
- WikiArte Latin American editathon with Iberocoop @ MoMA (Saturday, October 3)
- WikiConference USA 2015 @ National Archives in DC (October 9-11)
- Women in Architecture editathon @ Guggenheim (Thursday, October 15)
- Wikipedia Takes Manhattan Strikes Back (October 17-18)
- WikiWednesdays @ Babycastles (Wednesday, Oct 28)
- November:
- Afrocrowd Wikipedia Editathon @ MoMA returns (Tuesday, November 10?)
- Women in Science editathon @ New York Academy of Sciences (Sunday, November 22)
- January 2016: Wikipedia Day NYC 2016 for the 15th anniversary (see Wikipedia Day NYC 2015)
Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions
[edit]Keynote
[edit]15-20 minutes
- TBA
5 minutes; includes other discussions and skill-shares
Sign up here!
Sign up
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Likely attendees
[edit]- Pharos (talk) 21:43, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
- BrillLyle (talk)
- Jim.henderson (talk) 20:43, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
- Aliceba (talk) 22:15, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
- kosboot (talk) 15:37, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
- Shanluan (talk)
- Roman Spinner (talk) 22:47, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
- Hexatekin (talk) 18:35, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
- Becksguy (talk) 20:03, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
- Bluerasberry (talk)
- DGG (talk)
- Jeremyb (talk)
- Ronald Sexton (talk)
- Skigg (talk)
- Vmenkov (talk)
Possible attendees
[edit]- For the first time, I might actually get the chance to attend one of these meetups. I'll have to see what happens when I get to the city. -------User:DanTD (talk) 00:48, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
Regrets
[edit]- Can't make it this time, but after last month I certainly plan on making a regular appearance! — MusikAnimal talk 22:48, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
Food tonight
[edit]- Chicken fingers, chicken wraps, rotisserie chicken
- Vegetable selection including roasted kale with garlic and grilled zucchini
Comments / feedback / suggestions about tonight's food and/or for next month's food selection? Please let us know!
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2015-09 WikiWednesday.
- Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
- Wikimedia New York City
- Free Culture Alliance NYC